Rambling

Okay finally got all the housekeeping out of the way to use my [Uni v4] 😆

Mostly it was updating the udev rules by following the directions on the Plover Wiki for Javelin, the embedded steno engine that I'm using, also some of it was messing around with the bootloader settings, trying to see if I could delete the 7 entries that NixOS added, and I figured it out eventually 😆

Stenography

but now I'm ready to practice! I'm doing Lapwing as my base dictionary just because I like the aesthetics better, for beginners I would recommend just using Plover since it's so readily available, but I couldn't stand the inconsistencies of what was essentially just [Mirabai Knight]'s personal dictionary.

Oh, apparently Lapwing is now recommended for beginners, huh! Well I was wanting to use it anyways so that's good 😆

Looking through the book, I'm reminded of how unfriendly it feels? Unfriendly isn't the right work, but I want to start using steno not learn theory dangit 😆

Learning how to Learn

Got frustrated with it and started watching a video series 😆

Pomodoro Technique

Spaced Repetition

Sleep other ways to get rid of metabolic toxins? Meditation? Dreaming / wanting to dream about it helps a lot

Chunking small patterns can become bigger chunks and again and again focus on the material understand the basic idea you're trying to chunk practice in context

illusions of competence in learning

overlearning

advantages of interleaving

Stenography

Finally practiced, took me all day to start and only a few minutes to do 😆 Don't have the layout memorized at all, but did manage to only mis-stroke 60% of the words 😆 Taking break pomodoro -nods-